Sunrise at South Sunlight Lake

Sunrise at South Sunlight Lake

Large-format camera equipment is heavy. When I leave the road for a five-day wilderness photo shoot, my pack weighs 70 pounds – about half my body weight. As my knees approach the half-century mark, it’s become increasingly clear that I need help to reach the remote wilderness valleys where many of my best photos have been made. In the summer of 2005, I enlisted a former semi-pro mountain bike racer who is 15 years younger and four inches taller than I am to help me pack my gear into Sunlight Basin, 16 miles from the Vallecito Campground trailhead in the Weminuche Wilderness near Durango. The difficulty of the approach was compounded by the enormous piles of avalanche debris that blocked the trail in six places. An unrelenting series of fierce storms the year before had brought down the biggest avalanches in a hundred years. The avalanches had snapped off hundreds of trees two feet in diameter and piled them up like a giant’s game of pickup sticks. The approach took us nearly two days. On our first morning in Sunlight Basin, we were rewarded with beautiful sunrise light on 14,082-foot Windom Peak, 13,995-foot Sunlight Spire and 14,059-foot Sunlight Peak, all reflected in South Sunlight Lake.

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